Ironically, this started when I thought "Oh, I should probably back up in case something goes wrong".
So I started out reading the stuff on the
wiki page, and I did the universal hack for my kindle. It worked, and I installed yifanlu's gui thing, JBpatch, some JBpatch requirement, and the ad removal.
I then started the steps to do the backup, the first of which being USB networking.
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle4NTHacking#SSH.3F
Those were the instructions I followed.
I got into diags mode, and turned on USBnet, and could set the IP of my laptop on the usb0 interface, but couldn't SSH in. It was saying the connection was refused, or whatever the error is when the thing you're trying to connect to isn't running anything to connect to.
This is when things went bad, I found I couldn't leave diags. The stop diags option or whatever it's called resulted in an error about a lack of xml file, reboot just went back to the main menu, and the reset just went back to diags. Reading for a while on the forums, I got the USB mode happening, and deleted the ENABLE_DIAGS file, but it still booted to diags.
After dicking around with the imx_usb_loader for a while, and not really knowing how to use it, I eventually just booted windows and used the MfgTool to select main as the boot, and it worked.
But that's just a temporary thing, and I'm not really sure what to do to fix it.
I'm really sorry that I'm having trouble with all of this, but I just eventually decided to make my own thread to ask for help after an hour of reading in circles on what to do, with little being explained.
From what I understand, I should be trying to ssh into the thing, and I should be able to fix it from there.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...0&postcount=12
That says just not to mix 5.0.x and 5.1.x, but there are no 5.1.x diag images that I see... The ones people are always referencing have no version numbers, so is there another source?